Top 28 Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.